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Amnesty International’s annual report paints a grim picture of Zimbabwe, highlighting a trend of violation of human rights and suppression of dissenting voices. The organisation documented numerous cases of arbitrary detention, torture, and killings targeting opposition members, activists, and journalists.
Outspoken former Zengeza West MP Job Sikhala has launched a new pressure group, Operation Vhuserere/Imvuselelo, aimed at reigniting a “mass democratic struggle” for freedom, reform and prosperity in Zimbabwe.
HARARE – Magistrate Vongai Guwuriro has exonerated former opposition MP Job Sikhala from the incitement charges he has been facing for the past four years.
HARARE – Opposition politician Job Sikhala, who was convicted on charges of “publishing falsehoods,” has been sentenced to 9 months in prison wholly suspended for five years and further ordered to pay a US$500 fine by Harare magistrate Feresi Chakanyuka.
Former Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala has dumped the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) launching a mass nationwide democratic consultative process as he seeks to form a new national movement.
Chofamba Sithole: “The case of my good brother Job Sikhala’s post-release predicament is one out of a tediously long series of cases of Zimbabwean politicians demonstrating the necessity of professional PR/comms support in politics.”
Bulawayo based Prophet Blessing Chiza has told Job Sikhala to stop wearing suits and claimed that the former opposition MP was being inspired by the spirit of the late former South African President and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela.
Chofamba Sithole: “This is directed at my brothers here who I will not name, whose posts about our dear brother and Cde Job Sikhala have been totally insensitive, callous and steeped in factional political interests, and without a shred of human decency.”
HARARE — Former Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala who spent almost two years in remand prison says he is assessing the current state of his fragmented Citizens Coalition for Change, which was recently abandoned by its leader Nelson Chamisa claiming that it has been hijacked by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Zanu PF. In an interview with journalists in Harare on Wednesday, Sikhala said he is unhappy that he was abandoned by CCC colleagues until he got support from the Job Sikhala Solidarity Movement led by Obert Masaraure.
Former opposition Zengeza Member of Parliament, Job Sikhala, says he will embark on “Thank You” rallies for the support he received from ordinary citizens across the country while he was in detention.